The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-09
MALAD MlEsNYTI9NINGS.
News Gleanings on a Trip
Through the Valley.
BEAUTIES AND ATTkAJ 4 IONS.
improvements and ools
New BuildiRgs-Political Ad- !,
venturers-Otber Notes.

M, f. CowIEY, of the Contributor,
spent several days canvassing in Mslad
last week.
SToCK-RAIsING is the leading pursuit
this year, as the cereal crop was greatly
reduced by grasshoppers.
THE OBNOXIOUS test oath of this Ter
ritory is still bugbear to all seif-re-
| specting intelligent citizens.
AT PRESENT the Malad valley con-
tains about $500 people, and in the
City of Malad proper about 1900
people.
THE TERM Maiad is of French origin
and means sickness, malarial, or bad:
The valley was so named from its alkall
| springs.
SEVERAL THRIVING mercantile houses
are located in this valley, of which the
Coop, Thomas & Owen, Jones &
Richardson and W. B. TheWs are doing
the principal business.
HENRY PECK, the veteran, who
downed Governor Bum in a wrestling
match, is still about town as lively us
ever. He thinks the test oath mon
strosity will be repealed by the next
Legislature.
SALT LAKE travelling men and the
public generally, will be pleased to learn
that nice new hotel is being erected in
Malad just opposite the postotfice.
Mrs. Eliza Jones is the proprietor, and
the caravansary will be opened in about
ten days.
The E1aterpriSe-a very fair county
paper-hings out it's efforts to the
breeze here, and from the number of
Swinton's and Reed & KeIlog's Rhet-
orics being studied by the local Liberals,
should judge that even a Bostonian
will soon find congenial atmosphere.
ACTIVE STEPS are being taken here to
secure a STAKE organization. The re-
moteness of this valley from Franklin,
the present headquarters of the Oneida
Stake, is the chief reason urged for a
change. The West Oneida Stake"
would constitute very handsome sub
division, and ,Sas a petition signed by
the bishops and people in this vicinity
has been presented to the apostles, it
will probably be granted.
ARCHITECT FRANK WooDs still con-
tinues to make tie desert blossom
under his direction; the Latter-day
Saints have commenced the erection of
nice new tabernacle in Malad City.
Mr.. Woods seems to have considerable
honor both in and out of his own coun-
try, as he has not only supervised the
construction of a score of new resi-
denceS here, but he is the architect of
the Territorial Asylum and the Court
House of Bingham County.
TJu OF
with the exception of Malad, where they
have no district school at present, are
very well attended; but brief visit to
one or two of them disclosed the fact
that they were over crowded. The
teacher and the pupils, too, under
such circumstances are taken at dis
advantage, and is very poor economy.
The teachers discipline and his general
work is interfered with. 1t was doubt
less this state of affairs that gave rise to
the trite idea:
Uneasy lie the hands OF all who rule,
His most OF al whose kingdom is school
Citizens here, like the consistent citi-
zens of Utah, look upon the captlous
directors to the Statehood movement
as standing practically against that
which they theoretically admit to be
right. They also think that so far as
the Constitution is concerned it ought
to be interpreted as all other contracts
are-"the terms of the contract is the
law of the contract"-and no person,
lawfully and justly speaking, has any
right to go behind the agreement and
its conditions, attaching to it Interior
and foreign motives. If this were per-
mitted, agreements and contracts would
be OF no use. Punic faith and the
gauZy ideas OF superannuated poll
ticians would obtain on every hand
The men of Utah have too much honor
to mean the opposite from what they
say. They have already "suited the
action to the word to as full an extent
as any sane man could ask; and when
the charter of Statehood is granted,
Utah will show to Congress and her |
sister States that she is worthy of the |
trust reposed in her.
MANY OF Utah's old citizens will re-
member Malad as being a principal |
point on the highway to Montana and |
the north. Numerous tales are told of |
heroic adventure and stole fortitude |
endured, not only by portions of Lewis
d Clark's expedition, but also by our
early mountaineers. The legends, too,
orthe early French (the people who
named ILLS VaIIey are graphic ana IN
teresting in the extreme. On hearing
these ones mind instinctively reverts to
Marquette, and he is firmly Impressed
with the ides that the same spirit
which sctuated the bold adventurer of
the Mississippi, fired his Jesuit brethren
who came west at later day
At present the valley is very pictur-
esque little one, flanked on the north
and east bV towering mountains while
to the west and south the hills are more
and less rugged. The valley
is graced by several pretty little towns.
Samaria,. allied to its Biblical hame
sake only by containing a number
of good Samaritans, lies on the west,
Malad city on the east and St. Johns on
the north, while East and West Portage
lie to the south, or at the mouth of the
valley. IN "a "e9 II
THAT WAS a rare bit of Tribune gall
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